Caribbean Home: Your Own Private Escape in the Grenadines

By: - October 16th, 2015

By the Caribbean Journal staff

It’s one of the few still-largely-undiscovered islands of the Caribbean: Bequia.

And this charming little isle in the Grenadines chain is home to this an eight-bedroom, seven-bathroom, 11,500-square-foot getaway.

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The property is currently listed for $6.75 million with Sotheby’s International Realty, which calls the home “luxurious but not flash, private but not remote, unique but not just for its own sake.”

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It’s built in the Mustique style, meaning one central entertaining building with accommodations spread out in individual lodges, a mixture of modern and classic.

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And then there are the views of Hope Bay.

— CJ

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